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PerspectiveChemistry

Ultrafast Reaction Dynamics in Molecular Cluster Ions

Robert Parson,

James Faeder

The authors are at JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0440, USA. E-mail: rparson{at}jila.colorado.edu

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Summary

Robert Parson and James Faeder
Chemical reactions can be affected greatly by their surroundings: Even a solvent that perturbs the reactants weakly can have a strong influence on the course of the reaction. In their Perspective, Parson and Faeder discuss results reported in the same issue by
Greenblatt
et al.
in which ultrafast laser pulses were used to study the effects of argon atoms on the dissociation of iodine molecules. With a single experiment, the entire progress of the reaction can be observed.